About the Authors

Kjerstin M. Owens

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Mariola Kulawiec

Affiliation Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Mohamad Mokhtar Desouki

Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America

Ayyasamy Vanniarajan

Affiliation Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Keshav K. Singh

kksingh@uab.edu

Affiliations Department of Cancer Genetics, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, United States of America, Departments of Genetics, Pathology, Environmental Health, Center for Free Radical Biology, Center for Aging and UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KMO MK KKS. Performed the experiments: KMO MK MMD. Analyzed the data: KMO MK MMD KKS. Wrote the paper: KMO KKS. Analyzed RISP expression by quantitative Real Time PCR: AV.